Itzik Schwartz-Kara 1975Wife Tzila on the left and Sister Golda on the right

1.3 In Memory of Nathan P. Abramowitz (1917-2002)

Nathan, son of Max and Minna Abramowitz, was born and educated in N.Y. and later settled in Cherry Hill, N.J. He was an electrical engineer whose career included consulting, manufacturing and management services in United States as well as Europe.

Upon his retirement his endless curiosity and wanderlust, as well as his intelligence and good humor, led him to pursue his interest in genealogy. His interest in his grandfather's and father's hometown of Podu Iloaiei introduced him to Itzik Schwartz-Kara's book, The Jewish Community in Podu Iloaiei.

Nathan had this book translated from Romanian to English to make it available to people interested in their Romanian-Jewish heritage and acquaint them with the detailed town history, community life, education, synagogues and rabbinate of Podu Iloaiei.

He is survived by his wife, Lucille, and two sons.

2 About the Aug/2006 Edition

A number of additions and changes are being introduced with this new edition of Kara's book.

2.1 Organization of Chapters

The arrangement of chapters has changed and new chapters have been added.

Chapter

Old Chapter#

Comment

1

Preface by KM Elias, 2006

New

2

Modifications Appearing in this Edition, 2006

New

3

Preface by N. Abramowitz, 2002

New

4

Obituary for Itic-Svart Kara, 2001

New

5

Foreword by Dr. S. Caufman, 1990

15

Formerly called Afterword

6

Introduction by I.Kara, 1990

1

7

Chronicle (1818-1968)

2

8

Economic Life

3

9

Communal Life

4

10

Private and Public Education

5

11

Synagogues

6

12

Rabbinate

7

13

Hasidism

8

14

Folklore and Ethnography

9

15

Podu Iloaiei as Depicted in Literary Works

10

16

Documentary Appendices

11

This edition does not include Appendix P, the 1898 census. Appendix P appears separately as a database in the JRI section of JewishGen. ???

17

At the Turn of the Century. Several Cumpulsory Additions

13

18

I. Kara: History Studies. Selected Bibliography

14

19

References

12

Formerly called Notes Now arranged by chapter.

20

Glossary of Terms

New

21

Glossary of Places

New

22

Glossary of People

New

23

Pictures

16

2.2 Footnotes

In the Romanian edition of the book there's a chapter titled Notes, which we are now calling References. In this English edition the pointers in the body of the book appear in the format [A-1], [A-2], [A-3].

We've also added our own footnotes, indicated by the following prefixes:

[Ed-Com]  these deal with words or concepts used in the book

[KME]  these deal with the process of producing this book

In this English edition the pointers in the body of the book appear in the format [B-1], [B-2], [B-3]

2.3 Glossaries

During the course of editing this book, I've had a number of inquires from people with Podu Iloiaie ancestry looking for information about their families. In a number of cases I've been able to find them pertainent information by doing keyword searches throughout the Word document.

As a result I came to realize the need for a glossary of people and places mentioned in the book. This will be very helpful for genealogists searching for specific names.

2.4 Printing this Document

This document was originally written as an MS Word Doc file and later converted to PDF format. It was also converted to HTML format for hosting at Yizkor Book Project.

Some people however may prefer reading a document of this size (over 100 pages) from a printed hardcopy rather than from the computer monitor. The PDF version is ideal for this purpose as it is more printer-friendly than HTML.

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